Thoriq Firdaus

Thoriq is a writer for Hongkiat.com with a passion for web design and development. He is the author of Responsive Web Design by Examples, where he covered his best approaches in developing responsive websites quickly with a framework.

Latest posts

20 Plugins to Manage Multiple Authors WordPress Sites

WordPress is an easy CMS to run your blog. So much easy to use that it now powers more than 30% of the web. You can write, edit, and publish your post…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2020)

We’ve seen a tremendous activity from the PHP as well as the JavaScript community, especially on Twitter. There have been new updates and releases o…

How to Backup WordPress Site to Dropbox

WordPress empowers more than a quarter of websites on the Internet. However, unfortunately, it also often becomes a target of an attack. If you run yo…

How to (Automatically) Backup Your Website into Dropbox

As website owners, one of the important things you should do is to regularly backup the website. Some web hosting providers may already have the backu…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020)

At the time of this writing, Google has just completed web.dev live webinar. A 3-day event featuring the latest of web development, performance, and t…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020)

PHP turns 25 this month, and the alpha-stage of PHP 8 will be released this year. PHP was once developed as merely a tool to create a “Personal Home…

10+ Best Free JavaScript Lightbox Libraries

Lightbox is one popular way to overlay images on the web. When you click on an image, the Lightbox pops up with some form of animation and dims the ba…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (May 2020)

If you’re a web designer or developer and want to make the most of your spare time, take a look at this round of Fresh Resources series. In this lis…

10 Best Free macOS Apps For Developers

For web developers, applications are important factors to better productivity; without having the right ones, developing a single website could take u…

How to Build A Fully Customized WordPress Login Page

Many of you, I believe, are familiar with the WordPress login page at wp-login.php. It looks nice, and works fine. But when it comes to creating a web…

HTML5 <article> and <section> Elements

HTML5 comes with a bunch of new elements with more to be recommended in the future. However, there are some elements that might be a little confusing …

How to Upgrade PHP to Latest Version

PHP7.4 has been released with a handful of new features — like the arrow function array_map(fn (Foo $foo) => $foo->id, $foo), typed properties…